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Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
Civil Rights Advocate
Film Director
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Zora N. Hurston
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
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Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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truth is a letter from courage!
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
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When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.
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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
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every heart has its graveyard.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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